On Saturday November 1st the inaugural GameJam event at AFTRS in Sydney was unleashed upon the Entertainment Quarter. Sydneysiders and interstate guests each passionate about game design, playing games, virtual spaces… the list goes on, gathered to present and watch presentations, to learn about pitching ideas and for just a general all around good time.
Thanks [...]
AFTRS is running two new cool Graduate Diploma courses starting in Feb 2009 in Virtual Worlds and Games Design and we have had a few open days at the new building at the Fox Entertainment Quarter to excite and inform. For the last one we did a fun, little experiment and composited (green screened) visitors [...]
One of many presentations I do but this might be of interest to Watercooler’s - yes all five of you! A talk at Sydney’s ACP (Australian Centre of Photography) about the good ole metaverse featuring Gary and also a project that started in LAMP called What If Shakespeare, from a lab in November last year. [...]
To show how Social 3D Worlds are permeating the real world the first ever Congressional hearing on Virtual Worlds was run in April of this year. The then CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) Philip Rosedale, testified before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, basically telling them about the likely ‘influence’ that 3D [...]
The NSW Education Department is now among Google’s biggest gmail clients after they recently signed up for the service. A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the NSW Education deal is one of the biggest deployments of gmail in the world. You can read the article here. Macaquarie University has also reportedly [...]
Dave Parry, an assistant professor of Emergent Media and Communications at the University of Texas has decided to experiment with offering his Graduate Seminar on Networked Knowledge to interested students outside of the university who are willing to commit to completing the readings and participating in on-line discussion sessions. Essentially he is offering the knowledge [...]
The Thursday’s Fictions cross-media jamboree has been put into the Atom finals awards 2008 as Best Multimodal Production (other 3 entries below).
Award Recipients - Names: Richard James Allen, Gary Hayes, and Karen Pearlman
Award Recipients - Organisations: The Physical TV Company, AFTRS LAMP (The Australian Film Television and Radio School - The Laboratory for Advanced Media [...]
We at LAMP and AFTRS know of Randy’s legacy via contacts at Carnegie Mellon ETC in Adelaide and after seeing Randy Pausch’s passion for his pioneering work in the last lecture it is very sad news that he died this week. Text from the Carnegie Mellon site provides more detail.
“Pausch co-founded the Entertainment Technology Center [...]
